Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-20
SPIRIT OF III NEWS.

Rain has ended the Texan drouth.
There are $4,000 women farmers in
Ireland.
Russia is collecting large commissary
and other stores ON the northern border
of Afghanistan.
M. De Giers has been decorated by
the Car of Russia in appreciation of
his advice to maintain peace.
In South America the ladies have a
custom of throwing valuable fans upon
the stage instead of bouquets.
A woman in Ohio eats nothing but
pie. She has not tasted meat, bread,
or vegetables for sixteen years.
1t is estimated that 1000 young
women earn their living as governesses
in private English families with salaries
at 500 a year.
The two ladies in the New York
School Board voted against each other
on the question of filming a teacher for
slapping a pupil.
The eldest son of the German Crown
Prince is such an intense partisan and
hater OF France that he refuses even to
drink champagne, and will drink only
German wines.
George Washington, of color, was ar
raigned in a Brooklyn police court the
other day upon the complaint of Mar
tina Washington, his wife. that he had
threatened to kill her.
William Ward, who has just died in
Sedalia, Mo-, aged "a, was the first
mar to build Il paper-mill west of the
Mississippi River. His father lived to
be a centenarian, and his grandmother
died at 10.
Herr Most p%ronounces the prison on
Blackwell's Island greatly inferior to
similar institutions in Europe. Having
sampled various prisons in his time, he
is fully competent to speak of their
relative merits.
Capt. John A. Dokc, who recently
died at Mantle, Mass, aged 81, was the
last survivor of the Washington Artil-
lery of Boston in attendance at the
laying of the cornerstone of the Bunker
Hill Monument.
DR.. Joseph Parker, of London, who
will soon deliver an Grafton upon
Beecher in Brooklyn, has been formally
invited by cable to preach in Plymouth
Church, with u view to his possible en-
gagement as pastor.
Thomas Wight, of Otistield, .'the
most eccentric man in Maine,' died re-
Gently at the age of 80, having never in
his life been i'll a day. He is said to
have eaten a half-pint of ashes every
day for many years, but this is probab-
ly a concentrated lie.
Nine. Minnie Hauk has received
from the French Government the title
and insignia of "Oficier de academic"
in recognition of her distinguished
| services for French musical art. She
is the first American thus honored.
William c. Beecher will prepare q
biography of his father from the album
dant notes, letters, and papers left by
him. He will be assisted in his work
by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher and
other members of the family.
The girls at Covington. Ky, have
organized q boycott which involves nom
association with young men who get
drunk, The girls have introduced what
no mar had wit enough to devise-a
boycott that is both e~xpedient and law
full.
A Judgment of the Supreme Court OF
Justice in Germany has been sent to
the Ministryof the Interior defining the
scope Of the American treaty regarding
n%aturalized citizens. It affirms that
the acquisition Of citizenship in the
United States, with an unbroken resi-
dence there of five years, causes loss O
citizenship in Germany. Such persons